The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE consumption of petroleum by England in
1886 was about ., $50. 900 barrels.

1886 was about $50, 900 barrels.
WOMAN who has been nominated for School
Commissioner in Wayne county, New York, will
stump the district.
The cruel punishment of slow death yhang-
ing to stand on the tips of the toes is still
extensively inflicted in China. The barbarous
system Of comforting hOnors on widows who
commit suicide is also continued
THE adopted daughter of Michigan farmer
named Henderson coufesses that she set fire to
his house five times poisoned his cows because
she didn't want to help milk them and smoth-
cred the baby in order TO get rid OF it.
THE report of the Secretary of the Interior on
the condition of affairs in Utah shows, among
other things, that of the nearly 100000 adult
inhabitants of that Territory, 139,2J7 belong
to the Mormon Church. and $4,000 are non
MormOns.
AN ingenious woman is working a novel
scheme for getting material for crazy quilt.
She has written to many postmasters asking
for piece of silk, satin, or velvet, ana setting
forth that she hopes to get pieces for her quilt
from every State in the Union.
GEN OLIPHANT of Trenton, is having made a
china cup, embossed in gold and decorated with
floral and other designs, for his old friend Capt.
Bell, who came from Scotland for the cup the
Volunteer won. The cup is intended as Souve-
mir of the visit of the Thistle to America
MEASUREMENTS of 100000 Russians were taken
Of both sexes working in different industries,
and it was found that workmen in the textile
branches were smaller and had narrower chests
and less weight than those engaged in other
works, the spinners being the weakest in every
respect.
RAILWAY CONDUCTORS have fads, and the latest
one is collecting punch holes from other con-
ductors. A conductor on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad has collection of more than
q hundred
hearts, crescents, crosses, birds, and many other
objects
THE will of Melvin Procktor, of Claremont,
n. H., is being contested on fine point of pro-
bate law. Lawyer Parker called to Prock-
tors bedside to write his will. He did so, and
Procktor started to sign 1t, wrote the word
Melvin" and fell back dead. The validity of
the will under such signature is questioned.
ANNIE E. MOORE, of Winthrop, bids fair to be
one of Names most valuable daughters. In
1885, when she was but Is years old, she took
the first premium butter at the Eastern
Maine Fair; in 1885 she again took the prize at
the State Fair. and now she has taken the pre-
MUM at the Eastern Maine Fair for butter made
by girl not over IS years of age.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY declares that Postmaster
General Villas lost his opportunity at the time
he made the speech at the banquet to Gen.
Grant in Chicago. That speech made Villas
known, and he would have been welcomed by
has some reason for suspecting that he thought
of flying to those arms at that time.
JUSTICE ANDREW SELLEcK, of Norwalk, Conn,
went to a dark closet to take some acid phos-
phate, and instead took some oxalic acid He
discovered the mistake very soon, and told his
wife, who at once poured into him big cup of
coffee, raw egg, lot of castor oil, and glass
of milk OF course the acid had no show, and
the Judge lived; but he can't tell which made
him feel the worse, the poison or the antdotes.
POWDERED GLASS is largely taking the place Of
sand in the manufacture of sand paper. 1t is
| readily pulverzed by heating it red hot and
throwing it into water. the finishing being done
in an iron mortar By the use of sleeves of diff
ferent sized meshes, the powder is separated
into various grades. A strong paper, or muslin,
| is tackled down and covered with a strong size
of glue, the surface covered with powdered
| glass, and when the glue is dry, the surplus
| glass is shaken or brushed off.
l. w. CoLIARD member of the Seventeenth
Indiana Volunteers, ten years ago started for
the West, intending to send for his mother, Mrs
Elizabeth Colard, within a year Each lost
track of the other, and after numerous success
full attempts to obtain Information each con-
cluded that the other was dead At the recent
reunion of Gen WiIder's Brigade at Greencastie
Ind, Collard met an indianapolis man who told
him of the whereabouts of Mrs. Collard and
mother and son are united again.
THE San Francisco Examiner says that the
rived in that port. brought $4,000 worth of
Chinese girls to repleniSh the slave quarters of
that city. Though such importation is against
the Chinese restriction act against the contract
labor act, and against the still older law pro
hibiting the immigration of women brought for
immoral purposes, their owners will find no
serious difficulty in landing these costly chat
tells. few dollars for witnesses, something
more for a lawyer, and S17 50 apiece for court
fees will settle the matter.
MINER Ed ScHEFFELIN, who recently sold the
Toughnut mine, of Arizona, for 81 900, 900, went
to Carson the other day and put up at the best
hotel there. When dinner was announced he
sauntered into the dining room with his long
hair trailing down over his shoulders, which
were not covered by coat The head waiter
told the millionaire that he must put on his
coat. Il guess you don't know who am you
black rascal, said Mr.. Scheffelin. Don't make
no difference, sah, said the waiter: you must
put on yo' coat" And the landlord backed up
the waiter, and the man of money had to dress
before he could eat.
NJ. PELIGoT a French chemist, has discovered
that not the wine merchants, but the foreign
manufactured bottles are dishonest. When soda
and potash formed the basis of bottle glass
wines improved by keeping but now the glass
is aduiterated, and the best of wines are liable
to be spoiled He advises lovers of good wine
who do their own bottlng to pay high prices for
their bottles, as materials that are largely fer
rlIginous are constantly employed in the manu-
facture of glass for bottles, and upon these CON
stituents the acids in the wine act powerfully
and the liquid becomes impregnated with mar
nesia and what not Most French bottles he
says, are well worth good wines.
DURING examination at Edinburgh Unver-
sity, Scotland, the Students owing to the
scarcity of cloak rooms in their excitement
fling their hats or used to. anywhere and often
on the examiners desk. The examiner finally
said that if he found another hat on his desk he
would rip it up. The next day while the ex-
aniner was absent temporarily an undergradu-
ate took the examiners hat and placed it on the
desk. The examiner on re-enterng the hall saw
the hat and CLEAN of triumph shot over his
face Gentlemen, " he said, 4 told you what
would happen if this would occur again. Then
he deliberately cut to pieces the hat, amid the
prolonged applause of the students.
CHARLES LAcEs and Algernon R. Thomas.
Pcnnsylvanans while fishing few days since
at Wolf Pond, saw "a short distance from their
boat, the head and neck OF gigantic snake fish
long and pointed at the mouth, and increasing
in width until it appeared to be 6 or 8 inches
wide between the eyes Laces struck at the
reptile with heavy pole, and instantly the head
went down ard the body rose and was thrown
across the end of the boat, nearly capsizng it.
The object then disappeared. The head was
notified green and looked something like the
shell of a turtle. It's body was back, encircled
with rings Of dirty yellow color The men
say its length was 30 feet. It's body was about
u inches in diameter.
REV. j. T. WHITE (colored) pastor of the Sec
ond Baptist Cherch at Helena Ark owed one
of his flock $50 with interest for ten wars bacL